Toy house.



PATBNTED AUG. 21, 1906.

H. J. SONDER.

TOY HOUSE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 28, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT orrron.

TOY HOUSE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 21, 1906.

Application filed August 28,1905. Serial No. 276.026.

To all whom, it Wtcty concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN J. SoNDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Toy Houses, of'which the following is a specification.

This invention is a knockdown toy house characterized particularly by strength and simplicity of construction, so that it can be readily put up and taken down by a child and without danger of being smashed in the operation. The structure has a further advantage that it will occupy but small space when knocked down.

Toy or doll houses have often heretofore been constructed of pasteboard or similar material, which is subject to the defect, how.- ever, that it is easily broken. By means of the construction herein disclosed wood may readily be used, giving accordingly a greater strength and durability.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the house set up. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section. Fig. 3,is a horizontal section of one corner with the parts separated, illustrating the manner of putting the house together. Fig. 4 is an inverted or inside plan view of one of the roof-pieces.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates a base-board, upon which the other parts of the house are erected. This board has thereon small cleats or pieces 7, forming angles at the corners of the house and arranged to confine the walls thereof upon the base-board. These pieces may be tacked,

glued, or otherwise secured to the base-board.

The side walls of the house are indicated at 8, and the end walls at 9. These walls are separate and preferably made of thin wood,

but are secured together by angular cornerpieces 10, consisting of two strips secured together along one edge to form an angle. These corner-pieces are fixed, as by gluing or otherwise, to the end walls with sufiicient space between the edge of the end wall and t e corner for the end of the side wall to fit in,

' as indicated at 11.

The roof consists of two pieces 12 and 13, which are joined together at the ridge by an angular ridgepiece 15, the joint formed being similar in all respects to that produced by the corner-pieces 10. The roof-pieces have a hole at the top, into which a pasteboard chimney may be stuck. On the under side of the roof-pieces, near the ends thereof, are strips 16, which fit over the top edges of the end walls on the outside thereof. Pieces 17 are also secured to the roof-pieces and fit against the end walls, which are thus held snugly between the pieces 16 and 17.

It is a simple and easy matter to set up the' house by slipping the side walls into the corner-pieces and fitting the same within the angle-blocks 7, and the roof can then be put in place. The house can be dismantled or knocked down by simply taking off the roof and pulling its pieces apart and then lifting the walls out of the corner-blocks and pulling the same apart. Wood can be used, because there are no folding joints, and when the parts of the house are separated they will lie flatly one upon the other and occupy very little space.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A toy house comprising a base-board having corner-pieces secured thereto, separable walls having corner-pieces comprising strips secured together at one edge to form an angle, one side of which is permanently fastened to one wall and having a slot between the other side and the edge of said wall into which the edge of the other wall fits, and a roof formed of separable pieces having cleats on the under side fitting beside the upper edge of the end walls.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HERMAN J. SONDER.

Witnesses:

H. G. BATOHELOR, CHAs. F. Hour]; 

